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1) Africans in America: America's journey through slavery

Author

Johnson, Charles

Pub. Date

1998.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

2) King: the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

Author

Johnson, Charles

Pub. Date

2000.

Language

English

3) Dreamer: a novel

Author

Johnson, Charles

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

4) Juneteenth

Author

Ellison, Ralph

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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"The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out"--

5) Night hawks: stories

Author

Johnson, Charles

Pub. Date

2018.

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Language

English

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"A masterful story collection--thirteen years in the making--from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, showcasing the incredible range and resonant voice of this American treasure"--

6) All your racial problems will soon end: the cartoons of Charles Johnson

Author

Johnson, Charles

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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"Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth...

7) Dr. King's refrigerator: and other bedtime stories

Author

Johnson, Charles

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

8) Africans in America: America's journey through slavery

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

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A four part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America. This series exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramiatic recreations, rare archival photography, riveting first-person accounts and defines the reality of slaver's past through insightful commentary.

9) The eightfold path

Author

Barnes, Steven

Series

Eightfold Path

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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"From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages...